l'art pour l'art

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Art for art's sake
"Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, 'l'art pour l'art', which is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). Some argue Gautier was not the first to write those words. They appear in the works of Benjamin Constant, and Edgar Allan Poe, in his essay "The Poetic Principle", argues that
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L'art pour l'art
french term for symbolism and the aesthetic movement 

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